A couple of the oldest guys I knew were from my time goofing off; back when the game first came out if I found someone in the patrol zones doing the same mission as me I'd either join their fireteam or invite them to mine, and those friendships lasted a while. As for who I play games with now, it all started with the release of Vault of Glass. The day it came out I, like many, was in LFG immediately and we got a group going. It took a lot of time and pain, but we eventually made it to Atheon before agreeing to get the same group together the next day and finish it. Fast forward a day and I'm hanging out with one of the guys from the group just waiting for everyone else to show up(he wanted to just find another group but I convinced him otherwise) and we hit it off pretty well, started hanging out in parties more afterwards. Eventually got introduced to some other people he knew a week or two later(plus one Canadian I met by getting the drop he wanted most out of a nightfall, whoops) and it just sort of clicked. The original guy I haven't talked to in a while now, but at this point we've gotten up to 17 people in a group chat, all playing together and hanging out pretty actively. As a funny side note, I found out by sheer coincidence that a few of the guys we picked up on Oryx's launch week actually knew one of the guys we've known since vanilla for just as long as we have and we somehow never met before then. I had maybe 15 people on my friends list before Destiny came out, now it's up to like 100 and while not many still play the game I still talk to a good number of them or play other games. As for the main guys, we play together even on different platforms at this point and though a good few of us are going to be leaving our consoles at home while we're at college this coming year we're doing our best to set up PC contact and have some more nostalgic fun for old times' sake. Hell, that's the only reason I've been back into Destiny recently. Seems like I dragged on a bit, but those guys are pretty much synonymous with video games to me at this point. I always thought it was important to have a good set of online friends whether separate from or together with those in real life; I like seeing how people from different backgrounds react to things and quite frankly some kinds of people you wouldn't get the chance to talk to if you live in any given area. I have a lot of mixed feelings about Destiny and a lot of bad ones when I compare the way it felt at launch to the way I feel when I boot up the game now. With that said, the last two years of my gaming career would be completely different without it and it's changed how I handle myself in online games as a whole. Now for the part that actually answers the point of your inquiry: Do whatever you want to. If you're into PvP hardcore, take the time to find some guys for Trials or Iron Banner. If you like PvE, do whatever raid or content you want. Run VoG to try for a Praetorian Foil or a Fatebringer or something you don't need. See how much you can mess around while doing Crota's End. Do whatever King's Fall tells you to because they don't give much wiggle room as far as procedure, but hey. Run Skolas for the hell of it. Put yourself in a position where you're playing with a casual mindset. If you place having an enjoyable experience before everything else and find people based on that, you'll find people with the same attitude and somewhere down the line you'll find one or more people that you feel like you fit in with. People can find lifelong best friends in a world of 7 billion people in the same town as them. Strictly speaking finding people that you can enjoy yourself with across the country or even the globe, when it doesn't even need to be forever? That's easy by comparison.